A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE
A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE

BY JACQUES JEAN-BAPTISTE II TILLIARD, CIRCA 1785-90

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE
BY JACQUES JEAN-BAPTISTE II TILLIARD, CIRCA 1785-90
The rectangular padded back, seat and arm-supports upholstered in blue silk cut-velvet, the frame carved with interlocking roundels and headed by pine cone finials, the scrolled arms with panelled acanthus-carved terminals, the seat rail carved with rosettes and entrelacs, on stop-fluted tapering legs carved headed by panelled rosettes, stamped 'TILLIARD'
41 in. (104 cm.) high; 63 ½ in. (161 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep

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Jacques-Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, known as Jean-Baptiste Tilliard II, maître in 1752.

Tilliard (1723-1798), the son of Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, worked in his father's workshop until the latter's death in 1766 and then assumed control of the workshop. At the same time he inherited from his father the title menuisier du Garde meuble du Roi. He worked with the carvers François-Marie Chaillou, Nicolas-François Darnault and Toussaint Foliot. The well-known marchand-mercier François-Charles Darnault commissioned a set of chairs from Tilliard around 1777 which were sold to the Garde Meuble wardrobe in 1784 and placed at Versailles.

One slightly earlier Louis XVI canape by Tilliard II was sold Christie's New York, 22 May 2002, lot 345 ($83,650) and another was sold in these rooms 9 June 2011, lot 160 (£109,250). For further suite of related seat furniture see C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 68.

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